The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes accident aggrandize circumstance
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view. Peter Conrad anglecityindirect Change image and share on social
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. Peter Conrad announcementdeathfaith Change image and share on social
I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances. Lucy Alibar badcircumstancepierce Change image and share on social
It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized. Anson Mount aggrandizecharacterrare Change image and share on social
Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature. Ben Vereen accidentbackcreature share on social